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There's a regular Hatfields-and-McCoys battle brewin' in the football state, and it's starting to stir things up like no other recruiting confrontation in recent memory between the state's college-football elite. Florida State, Florida and Miami are in on it, pulling up fence posts and trying to establish new territories. Even UCF is in on this battle, as the poor stepchild of a neighbor from the other side of the tracks wants a piece of the action. Worth fighting over is the prize recruit of the 2015 class, running back Jacques Patrick of Orlando Timber Creek, a 6-2, 210-pound stud of a specimen who has state recruiters knocking down doors so fast they are literally...

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